The blog market is saturated? Oh, fiddlesticks. I just relaunched my free blog hosting service a few weeks ago. Now powered by WordPress, and so much better for it. I present: blogthing.
(And, if I remember correctly I initially launched blogthing just before Google bought Blogger. I sure can time things well, huh?)
But oD2 and the others are going to be running scared for a while. There should be some good offers on for European legal downloaders over the coming few weeks/months.
Now why in the Multiverse would you even need those if you were running confirmed opt-IN to begin with?
Because just because i'm interesting in a newsletter now, it doesn't mean i'm interested in it forevermore.
Let's say I want to go on holiday, so I sign up to a bunch of special offer newsletters. I find a deal, book my holiday, and my money is spent until next year. I don't need those newsletters any more.
There's a multitude of reasons why a legitimate opt-in might want to opt-out.
Went to take some money out late one night. There were about three (eastern european) guys huddled around the machine fiddling. Went to get money out, and the machine held out to my card - you could see the card in the slot, but couldn't get it out. Guys reappear and tell me something like "Oh. I've seen this before. Press blah, blah, blah and enter your PIN" while standing over me. Hmm, I don't think so...
So, I step back call my bank, wait on hold for an age, and as soon as they hear me confirm to the bank I want to cancel my card, I get my card thrown back at me by said guys, and they scarper into a car that has subsequently double parked.
I reported it to the local police station, and they said it happens all the time, but it wasn't actually a crime until they withdrew money (!!!).
(Or I just open my office window and listen to them from accross the street.)
Watching the video now? Do they just setup some decks and gear in a plaza near some shops/offices? The DJ looks pretty lonely as he watches the other people wander by. Ha.
In 1975, the Governor-General of Australia (ie, the representative appointed by the Queen to keep check on things in Australia) did disband parliament. It did lead to the most popular sound-bite in Australian politics, from Gough Whitlam, the Prime Minister at the middle of it all:
"Well may be say God Save The Queen - because nothing will save the Governor-General."
The fact that the Queen's representative was the one who ultimately got rid of the government still sticks with a lot of Australians.
The situation, ofcourse, is fairly complicated, and the disbanding of parliament wasn't done on a whim, and was done entirely within accordance of the constitution of Australian. A bit of Googling around has found this:
http://www.whitlamdismissal.com/kerr/the-palace- re grets.shtml
Where, in 2001, it was reported that the Queen was "disappointed" and "shocked" at the goings on in Australia at the time.
And you Americans who like stereotypes will find it amusing that there were accusations on drunkenness during the whole process too:
http://www.whitlamdismissal.com/kerr/the-palace- re grets.shtml
Thanks for the pointer to jedit. A php syntax aware editor, with an scp transport and some idea of a "project" is what i've been looking for for ages. I was just sitting around until xcode did it (which i figure it will sooner or later).
jedit looks awesome after playing with it for 10 minutes - seems to fit the bill nicely. yay!
Around about this time I saw an ATM in Mayfair, London, with a windows error message in the middle of the screen. It was complaining that a DHCP server couldn't be found, and was happily waiting for someone to come along and click on the OK button.
Mashing the keypad didn't seem to help. I guess sooner or later they would have realised the ATM had disappeared and would have sent a tech out to press reset or something.
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Before the reprice each employee was going to make an average of $2.8m.
I thought i'd read somewhere the options were going to vest much quicker than usual. I could be wrong on that point though.
The blog market is saturated? Oh, fiddlesticks. I just relaunched my free blog hosting service a few weeks ago. Now powered by WordPress, and so much better for it. I present: blogthing.
(And, if I remember correctly I initially launched blogthing just before Google bought Blogger. I sure can time things well, huh?)
yeah, same here:
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http://67.18.205.234/~jamie/trailer_hitchhikers.a
it's an easy way of stress testing a newish server, right?
Newsflash: Amercian laws don't apply outside of the US.
My boss has maxed out his 100Mb of paid Hotmail email storage. The bloody thing keeps timing out opening his folders, doing searches etc.
I dread to think what'll happen when he's got 2Gb to play with.
iTunes Music Store Europe has launched. Cheaper than I thought. Less tracks than they would have liked. Some nice exclusives though.
But oD2 and the others are going to be running scared for a while. There should be some good offers on for European legal downloaders over the coming few weeks/months.
Choose a download platform
Now why in the Multiverse would you even need those if you were running confirmed opt-IN to begin with?
Because just because i'm interesting in a newsletter now, it doesn't mean i'm interested in it forevermore.
Let's say I want to go on holiday, so I sign up to a bunch of special offer newsletters. I find a deal, book my holiday, and my money is spent until next year. I don't need those newsletters any more.
There's a multitude of reasons why a legitimate opt-in might want to opt-out.
hush now!
kids today? tch!
...and think of the money you'd save on hiring male escorts.
So many upsides for you. I say go do it.
fastmail.fm has some proxy services which will do SMTP on any port for people in your position.
And fastmail rocks generally anyway.
Apple paid for access to Xerox and the right to take their ideas.
How much did the theme manufacturer pay to Apple?
(And, anyway: it's a bit apples and oranges. Apple took the concepts. Theme dude took the look and feel.)
Erm, Microsoft got on to the PC bandwagon very very early. Like, they were writing commercial PC software literally before anyone else.
:)
That sounds pro-MS. Eeep!
fastmail.fm is a tasty treat for people trying to wean themsevles/others off hotmail or the like.
Go to their support forums, chat to the guys who own/run the company and write the code and geek out.
Nice theory, but during the problematic period, I couldn't login in to xbox.com (via passport) with Galeon. Ooops.
...almost.
Went to take some money out late one night. There were about three (eastern european) guys huddled around the machine fiddling. Went to get money out, and the machine held out to my card - you could see the card in the slot, but couldn't get it out. Guys reappear and tell me something like "Oh. I've seen this before. Press blah, blah, blah and enter your PIN" while standing over me. Hmm, I don't think so...
So, I step back call my bank, wait on hold for an age, and as soon as they hear me confirm to the bank I want to cancel my card, I get my card thrown back at me by said guys, and they scarper into a car that has subsequently double parked.
I reported it to the local police station, and they said it happens all the time, but it wasn't actually a crime until they withdrew money (!!!).
It's called a "Lebanese Loop". More info here:
http://hoaxinfo.com/atmscam.htm
I see plenty of machines in London with glue residue around the card slot. This must happen all the time...
http://fastmail.fm/ will give you 10Mb of space with web/IMAP access for free.
Feel free to use the username of "jwilson" if you're in a generous mood. Or not. It's all good.
Based on your figures, J. Public buying at $50 and caught a 40% increase in value, and everyone made out like pirates.
Sounds good to me.
clamav
The wheel was patented a couple of years ago...
No, seriously
(Or I just open my office window and listen to them from accross the street.)
Watching the video now? Do they just setup some decks and gear in a plaza near some shops/offices? The DJ looks pretty lonely as he watches the other people wander by. Ha.
In 1975, the Governor-General of Australia (ie, the representative appointed by the Queen to keep check on things in Australia) did disband parliament. It did lead to the most popular sound-bite in Australian politics, from Gough Whitlam, the Prime Minister at the middle of it all:
"Well may be say God Save The Queen - because nothing will save the Governor-General."
The fact that the Queen's representative was the one who ultimately got rid of the government still sticks with a lot of Australians.
The situation, ofcourse, is fairly complicated, and the disbanding of parliament wasn't done on a whim, and was done entirely within accordance of the constitution of Australian. A bit of Googling around has found this:
http://www.whitlamdismissal.com/kerr/the-palace
Where, in 2001, it was reported that the Queen was "disappointed" and "shocked" at the goings on in Australia at the time.
And you Americans who like stereotypes will find it amusing that there were accusations on drunkenness during the whole process too:
http://www.whitlamdismissal.com/kerr/the-palace
Struth!
Thanks for the pointer to jedit. A php syntax aware editor, with an scp transport and some idea of a "project" is what i've been looking for for ages. I was just sitting around until xcode did it (which i figure it will sooner or later).
jedit looks awesome after playing with it for 10 minutes - seems to fit the bill nicely. yay!
Details at http://www.tv-l.co.uk/.
(116? Has it gone up about ten quid recently?)
Around about this time I saw an ATM in Mayfair, London, with a windows error message in the middle of the screen. It was complaining that a DHCP server couldn't be found, and was happily waiting for someone to come along and click on the OK button.
Mashing the keypad didn't seem to help. I guess sooner or later they would have realised the ATM had disappeared and would have sent a tech out to press reset or something.